The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1887-05-24
HORSE NOTES. iSl:

mare sultana dropped April Sd. u
chestnut colt, by st. Blaise, the Eng
lish Derby winner.
ID. N. Wilson. of Easton, has sold
brown gelding, years old. by Ham
bletopian Bashaw, to George Lester, Of
New York, for S1400.
The Voante-The Bard match race
will probably fall through since MI.
Baldwin declines to make q match
until after his Chicago engagements
In July.
There are at least six superior 4.
year.olds now at the Memphis course.
namely. Montana Regent, Jim Gray.
Elkwood, Sir Joseph, Free knight and
Climax.
--El Monte and GolIah, two Of Bald
wins Derby colts, were given trial Of
mile and q half just before leaving
California, and Ell Monte won by more
than a length.
The Aberdeen Trotting and Run
ming Association is the name OF new
turf club just organized IN Que Of the
principal towns Of Mississippi. A
mixed meeting will be given in
May. a
Robert Steel's stallion Epaulet,
2.l9, is nearly it not quite blind. This
will keep him from the turf, but it
should not hurt him for the stud. The.
greatest successes of Lexington
were scored after he had lost his
sight.
The Cleveland Association has
rendered the use Of Its track and
grounds gratis to the National Breed
ers' Association for the purpose OF
holding It's 1887 meeting, and has also
made 1T a. definite proposition for its
stakes.
Russell Railey, Of Versailles, Kv.,
has sold the saddle stallion Markham
to j. K. Emmet, the actor. for $4,000;
also the b. 6. Hamlet for $500. Both
horses were sold from description, Mr..
Emmett not having seen either until de.
livered.
e. J. Baldwin's racing team of
twenty-five horses have left their
home, at the Santa Anita Ranch. Los
Angeles, Cal, for Louisville. Volante
heads the string. Laredo, one of the
Kentucky Derby entries, being amlss,
was left at home.
Crit Davis has first.rate tools for
the campaign near at hand. He re.
ports Phil Thompson as IN tip-top
shape. Maudo Messenger is doing
we'll. Prince Wilkes Is fat as a bear,
and Crit looks for q flrst-rate report
from him.
AT special meeting Of the New
jersey Association Of Trottlng Horse
Breeders, held at Elizabeth on April
10Th, j. @. Shaw, Of Finderne, was
elected President, vice E. A. Wilkin-
son, resigned. Mr.. Shaw is the pro.
prietor Of the Mount Pleasant stock
farm.
President Grant and other promi.
nent officers Of the National Trotting
Association favor cheap class for
struggling associations the coming sea.
son. The Board of Review will care
fully consider this question at Chicago.
A cheap fee will bring into the fold
scores Of Fair associations. lllff.tl
Nathan Straus, the owner of Ma
jolica. in reply to j. H. Temples chal.
lenge, says: II will trot his horse j. O..
Tor any other horse he owns), and will
be most happy to accommodate him In
track Of the Driving Club Of New
York, as Morrisania, on Wednesday.
June 9th, providing it is good day
and track, the match to be for S125O a
side, half forfeit, winner to take what
ever the track will offer in tho shape Of
gate money or purse. i am q NOM
ber Of the Executive Committee OF the
Driving Club, and would like Mr..
Temple to make all the arrangements
as to the gate money" Mr.. Temples
challenge to match horse against Ma
jolica was generally supposed to have
been on behalf Of J. @ /, but Arab, it
Is now said, was the horse meant.
The sensation Of the week has
been Tremont's being stopped in his
work, and those who have backed him
for the Suburban and Withers are at
their Wits end to know what to do.
It IS said that the trouble Is sore heels,
and that the Dryers have let him up,
put him in physic and will slowly pre-
during the week, had an interview
with a practical trainer who saw Ire.
mont work, and who says thai, In his
Judgment, the colt IS in q bad way, and
that he fears his tendon is involved.
He moved half mile with Hanover in
IS seconds, and the trouble began from
that time. The trainer in question
says he doubts II fremont will stand
strong preparation, and thinks it likely
his usefulness as q first.class horse is at
an end. 1t may be that Tremont's
trouble is exclusively in his feet and
that his legs are sound.
Some Of the gentlemen who have
entries In the race at Suffolk Course
for road horses that have no records
better than 2.30 are professedly dlssat-
isded and disheartened because one Of
the horses named is reported to have
gone a mile to skeleton wagon in
2.3l3. The complaining ones now wiah